Rate My Professor Martina Feilzer

Feilzer's research focuses on the relationship between the public and criminal justice institutions at local, national, and European levels; media effects on public opinion; legitimacy, trust, and penal policy; comparative and historical criminal justice studies; and mixed methods approaches, including public narratives and data visualization. Her influential publications include the highly cited 'Doing Mixed Methods Research Pragmatically: Implications for the Rediscovery of Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm' (2010, Journal of Mixed Methods Research); 'Privatising Probation: Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal?' (2015, Policy Press, with John Deering); 'A Pragmatist Approach to Mixed Methods Research' (2023, Routledge); 'Scrutiny of Police Institutions and the Spectre of Culture' (2024, Political Quarterly, with Bethan Loftus); and 'Sex Offenders Emerging from Long-Term Imprisonment' (2002, British Journal of Criminology, with Roger Hood et al.). She has provided evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee, contributed to the Lammy Review on BAME overrepresentation, and engaged in public lectures and media. Feilzer is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (elected 2022) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.